On Tue, 2005-06-21 at 18:11 -0400, Jim Cox wrote: > > I'm having a difficult time finding a local supplier (i.e. in the > > Greater Toronto Area) that can build and support an AMD Opteron based > > server. > > > I have a client that we're going to be installing a Linux server/thin > > clients for, but they want an AMD server. IBM and HP have been just > > about impossible to get a quote from, and Dell is out of the question > > (only Intel...what a shame...we're Dell VARs too). > > > I'd appreciate it if someone could give me a referral to a small/local > > company that could do this. > > Not local suppliers unfortunately, but we just looked at dual Opteron > 1U rackmounts and got quotes from Appro (www.appro.com) and Sun. Appro > was a little over $3k for dual 248's w/4Gb of memory, Sun was around > $4200 for a similar config (V20z). The Sun boxes seemed to be in short > supply, but we did order one and it should be in tom'w. We've got a couple of Sun V20z machines running RHEL and they're wonderful. Fastest Linux boxes I've ever used. Paul. -- Paul Howarth <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
